Brussof Valery Yakovlevich (4 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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£ 75.50
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Octavo, boards. New edition. Text offset from that of the 1930 Humphrey Toulmin / The Cayme Press edition with new introduction by Colin Wilson who calls this "one of the most remarkable novels ever written on the subject of magic and witchcraft." "Brussof's masterpiece, and one of the great witchcraft novels." - Sullivan (ed),…The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 62. "A classic of its kind ." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-35. Bleiler (1978), p. 31. Reginald 01900. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#158546).
V. IA. Briusov Rasskazy i povesti. Erzählungen un Novellen. Nachdruk der Ausgaben von 1907, 1913, und veitere Texte un mit einer Einleitung von Emitrij Tschizewskij.
V. Ja. Brjusov [V. IA. Briusov, Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, or Brussof]
Published by München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag., 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.Saul54
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. (1970). 661 pages. NearFine Hardcover (Maroon cloth, Spine Bookplate with title, no dj). 8.7"x5.9"x2.0". be31146.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1919
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1] 2-162 [163: printer's imprint] [164: blank], original green cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition in English, U.S. issue. The title novella, a fine anti-utopian fiction, is generally acknowledged to be the author's best fictional…work. "A very unusual impressionistic story, with an atmosphere like that in the work of Luis Borges." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 287. ". a novel depicting a benevolent, efficient, but overly regulated society, which is torn asunder by an epidemic of incurable Mania Contradiceus. The disease drives its victims to do the opposite of what is logical or expected . People crack under the tension, and the formerly well-ordered republic soon becomes a madhouse." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 209. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-177. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 46. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 42. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 146. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1768-74. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 01901. A fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges. (#170699).
Published by Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1918
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1] 2-162 [163: printer's imprint] [164: blank], original blue-gray boards with green cloth shelf back, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition in English. Presumed first state (as per Locke). The title novella, a fine anti-utopian fic…tion, is generally acknowledged to be the author's best fictional work. "A very unusual impressionistic story, with an atmosphere like that in the work of Luis Borges." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 287. ". a novel depicting a benevolent, efficient, but overly regulated society, which is torn asunder by an epidemic of incurable Mania Contradiceus. The disease drives its victims to do the opposite of what is logical or expected . People crack under the tension, and the formerly well-ordered republic soon becomes a madhouse." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 209. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-177. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 46. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 42. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 146. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1768-74. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 01901. Corner tips worn, some foxing to a few leaves, mostly early and late, a very good copy. (#170040).
